]]>By: namneziahttp://boingboing.net/2010/04/19/sidtube-watch-sleep.html#comment-764298
Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000#comment-764298This is basically what my young kids do for hours when they develop highly complex storylines and deep character development using all of their toy figures, stuffed animals and random inanimate objects and pieces of furniture. Just yesterday the ottoman in the living room what the pirate’s castle where Barbie was raising a family of dogs and elephants that needed to eat pencils to survive and the pirate was the only one who knew where the secret pencil stash was kept.
]]>By: whomeverhttp://boingboing.net/2010/04/19/sidtube-watch-sleep.html#comment-764332
Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000#comment-764332I’ve got to say, your manufactured connection conjured up nothing. Did you really not see you were trying too hard? Or is it purposeful and I’m just missing the joke?
]]>By: Andrewhttp://boingboing.net/2010/04/19/sidtube-watch-sleep.html#comment-764353
Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000#comment-764353I posted my initial reaction to the title. I’m sorry if you have to “try too hard” to make a connection between two things using the same acronym, but I didn’t put much thought into it. People have reactions to different things based on their personal experiences: what a blog post title conjures up for you is going to be different for me. That’s not really an excuse to give me a hard time for my comment, but hey, if cutting people down on the Internet for your own satisfaction is your thing, whatever.
]]>By: drumillerhttp://boingboing.net/2010/04/19/sidtube-watch-sleep.html#comment-764354
Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000#comment-764354@whomever, I think Andrew might be referring to Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS), and that a ‘Tube’ of such might not be the image the artist was hoping might get associated with the story/game.
]]>By: whomeverhttp://boingboing.net/2010/04/19/sidtube-watch-sleep.html#comment-764405
Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000#comment-764405@drumiller: Indeed, that’s what I had assumed. His forcing that association and insisting it be taboo smacks of the word police though, which brought to my mind that short story in 2041 about putting on Hamlet (especially as that had been the joke in one of the newspaper comics the other day).

@Andrew: I apologize for being terse. Your implication that because the acronym is associated with such, it shouldn’t be used by anything else, annoyed me, is all. Yours being the only comment I’ve seen suggesting that connection, there doesn’t seem to be a strong association, thus the “trying too hard” comment. I basically used your words in my response though, so pot, kettle, etc.

The game itself seems rather interesting. That each side only gets 30 seconds to respond would seem to make it extra challenging for the host.

]]>By: Andrewhttp://boingboing.net/2010/04/19/sidtube-watch-sleep.html#comment-764411
Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000#comment-764411I appreciate the apology, but to be honest I’m kind of confused about how you managed to come to that conclusion, given that mine was the second comment; you didn’t really give anyone else a chance to make that connection. And, to be fair, drumiller (and you, presumably) got it as well. ;)

Anyway, I hardly think I was “forcing” an association, and nowhere did I insist that it should be taboo. Disturbing and taboo are not always the same. And even if I was completely serious, it’s not like I was calling for the author to be stoned to death for offending my sensibilities. I guess next time I need to make the tongue-in-cheekiness clearer.